Uppity religious facebook statuses

[Oaky]

I go on facebook about once every 2 weeks to see what's going on. I don't really give much thought into anyone's status updates whether they are religious or not. I'm just bothered by the large number of requests I'm given. I have to waste time ignoring them all...

 

[Totenkindly]

I don't mind anyone who posts religious stuff. I did delete someone once for saying they hated Thai food though (well, this was like two days after them posting in a status how much they liked Jack in the Box). I figured I didn't need friends like that.

Darn straight.

But it's sort of the same thing, right?
Right?

Food is serious buis'nus.

 

[Laurie]

I go on facebook about once every 2 weeks to see what's going on. I don't really give much thought into anyone's status updates whether they are religious or not. I'm just bothered by the large number of requests I'm given. I have to waste time ignoring them all...

Just don't do anything. I don't even look at requests anymore. Somone in a virtual world I'm in added me because they recognized my name. Now they send me requests weekly to join groups... in a language I can't even read!!!

 

[AphroditeGoneAwry]

Just don't do anything. I don't even look at requests anymore. Somone in a virtual world I'm in added me because they recognized my name. Now they send me requests weekly to join groups... in a language I can't even read!!!

Yeah, besides, Type C is way more fun.

 

[Oaky]

Just don't do anything. I don't even look at requests anymore. Somone in a virtual world I'm in added me because they recognized my name. Now they send me requests weekly to join groups... in a language I can't even read!!!

That must be quite annoying. It seems as though the request whores have nothing else to do then to hang in facebook all day continuously posting requests.

 

[Lark]

People have cut me without explanation, other people have cut other people and I've only known I've not been cut because they've updated that if you can see this update you've survived a cut. So I figure its common.

I have people on my friendslist who I wish werent there and I could cut at some point, work colleagues and they all friended each other and it sort of just happened without my thinking, wait, do I really want them in the list? I did try to friend someone at a time who told me they kept it exclusive to close friends and family and I was fine with that.

Updates of that kind shouldnt bother you, contra opinions or stuff like that used to bother me when I was younger but now I realise its about them, not necessarily about me and I shouldnt feel anything in particular. It would bother me if it were sectarian or something like that, condemning people to hell.

For a while one or two people in my friends list were posting updates about their views on homosexuality, which I didnt share, I just didnt pay any attention but they started to contact me with why I hadnt copy pasted the posts or whatever and I simply said I didnt agree, one of them at least went off on one and started swearing at me so they got cut and blocked. Simple as. Like Cee Cee says the internet gives you that option why not use it?

 

[Lark]

BTW I dont like the phrase uppity attached to anything, it smacks of a kind of oppressive power imbalance. Same as saying someone should know their place or something like that.

 

[Totenkindly]

...Updates of that kind shouldnt bother you, contra opinions or stuff like that used to bother me when I was younger but now I realise its about them, not necessarily about me and I shouldnt feel anything in particular. It would bother me if it were sectarian or something like that, condemning people to hell.

I think idealistically you are correct, and a goal to work toward is not letting it bother one.

However, if you've been badly burned or are still dealing with it, and your family relationships still have unresolved issues because of beliefs like that, then it's kind of hard to just ignore. Firmer boundaries have to be installed and it takes time to do that, especially in relationships where you never wanted to have to draw hard lines to begin with.

For a while one or two people in my friends list were posting updates about their views on homosexuality, which I didnt share, I just didnt pay any attention but they started to contact me with why I hadnt copy pasted the posts or whatever and I simply said I didnt agree, one of them at least went off on one and started swearing at me so they got cut and blocked.

Sounds good. I tend to not like to join groups anyway, even if I'm part of a particular demographic, and don't like getting bombarded by requests even if I'm sympathetic to the cause to some degree... I delete just about all of them. I don't like it when people assume that just because I'm in a demographic, I suddenly should support everything they support.

 

[Lark]

I think idealistically you are correct, and a goal to work toward is not letting it bother one.

However, if you've been badly burned or are still dealing with it, and your family relationships still have unresolved issues because of beliefs like that, then it's kind of hard to just ignore. Firmer boundaries have to be installed and it takes time to do that, especially in relationships where you never wanted to have to draw hard lines to begin with.



Sounds good. I tend to not like to join groups anyway, even if I'm part of a particular demographic, and don't like getting bombarded by requests even if I'm sympathetic to the cause to some degree... I delete just about all of them. I don't like it when people assume that just because I'm in a demographic, I suddenly should support everything they support.

Oh yeah, I totally understand how it can bug people, I've got triggers too like anyone else.

When I was younger I used to have real issues with Christian evangelism, especially those who were trying to refight the reformation, perhaps they still bother me but I can deal with it a little better and I realise that they could be trying to meet their own needs and shore up their own insecurities by their actions, its them, not me and I dont need to make it about me you know?

I'll confess to a totally irrational dislike of street preachers, seriously they drive me nuts, although this isnt restricted to street preachers and I get the same way about street theatre or soap box politicos too. I used to really hate the socialist workers party at university.

It wasnt group requests, no one ever sent me a request for groups, especially when they saw that I was a member of the contrary groups from my profile.

I'd not reject someone out of hand because their opinions or politics are different, I tend to find that there's room for agreement most of the time on something or other, people dont tend to be that myopic or blinkered that that's not possible.

What is was was people posting something in an update and asking others to cut and paste it to show support and then contacting me on the chat function to ask why I'd not done so. Which I though was a no brainer.

 

[Timeless]

On this day, god wants you to know...

The Dark Knight sequel is coming soon.

 

[SillySapienne]

Serious business I know. I've got a fair share of "friends" on facebook that I knew growing up in church (friends of my parents, siblings etc.) who post a frequent and endless amount of these fluffy and giddy statuses pertaining to God, the bible, their faith etc.

I don't know whether to laugh or to cry, but I feel like laughing, right now, so, yeah!!!

WHO WOULD JESUS FRIEND?

 

[Sniffles]

The "I just took a dump! Jesus has blessed me so much!!!" stuff is bad enough.

Yeah I don't really want to know that either.

 

[MacGuffin]

I don't know about Jesus updates, but it seems no one sends me plants anymore to save the rainforest.

 

[ceecee]

I don't know about Jesus updates, but it seems no one sends me plants anymore to save the rainforest.

 

[SillySapienne]

This thread makes me proud of not belonging to the facebook community!!!

 

[MacGuffin]

This thread makes me proud of not belonging to the facebook community!!!

JOIN US

 

[SillySapienne]

I have no life, no friends, no goals, no ambitions, what will facebook do for me?

 

[Thalassa]

Yeah, I avoided facebook for months at a time until somebody told me that I could block the status updates of those people I knew in middle school and high school who lead irritatingly different lives than myself, yet I would feel "mean" just deleting them.

 

[Seymour]

I'm exagerating for effect, but not much.

I have learned to save my breath because even so much as a snopes.com link seems to only be further proof of my backslidden state without any consideration for whether or not I have a valid point.

They can't help it, I guess. And who knows what they might do if they actually started to doubt a little bit? Backslidden Pentecostals are notoriously dissipated and I'd hate to see that happen to the people I love so I try to let it go most of the time.

I do sometimes respond with snopes.com links (privately) to my dad's chain emails. I try to only respond to factual inaccuracies, and let the rest slide.

It's kind of like he's in the early 1990's stage of the internet. The emails never link to anything but instead embed everything (even huge attachments). I'm amazed with all the heart-warming stuff (usually about children, grandparents, soldiers and/or pets) that he forwards, especially since he's a pretty extreme ESTJ.

 

[Totenkindly]

I'll confess to a totally irrational dislike of street preachers, seriously they drive me nuts, although this isnt restricted to street preachers and I get the same way about street theatre or soap box politicos too. I used to really hate the socialist workers party at university.

I tend to dislike all that too... any sort of proselytizing. Don't like salesmen either.

I heard there are some great Christian/Muslim soapbox arguments in Britain, though, out in the parks. Apparently they get pretty heated but don't take the conflict personally.

When the Mormon guys wandered by two weeks ago and offered to help with my car, that's one of the first times in my life I finally had enough boundaries up to not care if they were hitting me up about their faith... and I really liked that feeling.

What is was was people posting something in an update and asking others to cut and paste it to show support and then contacting me on the chat function to ask why I'd not done so. Which I though was a no brainer.

yeah, srsly. I hate that added pressure / sense of entitlement. If you had wanted to join, you would have. It just sounds like they're trying to judge/coerce you by asking why.

It's kind of like he's in the early 1990's stage of the internet. The emails never link to anything but instead embed everything (even huge attachments). I'm amazed with all the heart-warming stuff (usually about children, grandparents, soldiers and/or pets) that he forwards, especially since he's a pretty extreme ESTJ.

I've seen TJs get pretty "soft/sentimental" too, online.